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Send an ambulance.

Going out.

Will you lend me your white vest for my tuxedo tonight? I've got ..

No.

Yeah. Your husband.

St George Hospital.

Operating room. Emergency.

Emergency. Compound fracture both legs. Possible internal complications.

Doctor Hochberg, Gordon, Vitale, Ramsey, Manning.

This is no job for an intern but ..

Operating room Emergency B. Doctor Ferguson.

You said this was no job for an intern.

O.R. Emergency B. Doctor Ferguson.

"O.R. Emergency B. Doctor Ferguson."

"O.R. Emergency B. Doctor Ferguson."

Come in here and sit down. Alright.

"O.R. Emergency B. Doctor Ferguson."

"O.R. Emergency B. Doctor Ferguson."

They're calling for you, Dr Ferguson.

Very good.

Doctor Ferguson.

O.R. Emergency B?

Very well. At once.

Tell Dr Michaelson to give her 20 units of insulin.

Yes, doctor. - I'll be back later.

Make this 40 units.

Doctor Ferguson said 20 units.

40 units of insulin. - Yes, doctor.

Good morning, Doctor Cunningham. - Good morning.

Here now. Drink this. There you are.

That will quiet you.

There you are. That's it.

Now you lie quiet here. You'll be alright.

There you are.

She'll get over it.

Say, you're not looking so hot yourself.

Why don't you stay home some night and get some sleep?

Do you want me to diagnose you? - Never mind.

I'm doing alright.

Yeah, I'll bet you are.

Dr Otis, that ambulance case you brought in.

Yes? - He died in the elevator.

His wife's in the waiting room. Tell her.

Yes, doctor.

Has anybody got anything to eat?

A chocolate bar or anything?

I'm hungry.

Slop is at 12:30.

Slops.

Live the life of a fireman and eat slops.

All we need is Apollo's advice. - Yes.

I swear by Apollo the physician.

And Asclepius and Hygeia and Panacea.

There's nothing in the old Hippocratic Oath about what they will feed us.

Or how many hours they will work us or what they will pay us or ..

I beg your pardon, Doctor McCabe. I didn't mean to disturb you.

You young men.

How can you ever catch up with all this?

So much of it.

We've gone so far since I was a boy.

You youngsters.

Take all that for granted.

You don't know the men who have dreamed and sweated.

To give you anesthesia.

Sterilization.

Surgery.

X-Rays.

All in my lifetime.

Pasteur.

Jenner.

Virchow.

Cherenkov.

Sir Charles Bell.

All giants.

But we have giants today.

Mayo.

Hochberg.

Yes.

Another giant.

Hochberg.

Chilly in here, isn't it.

Good morning, Doctor Hochberg.

Good morning, Doctor McCabe.

Yes. A little place on 84th Street where they serve a most delicious schnitzel.

And a glass of beer that high.

Doctor Hochberg. - But real.

I sent a patient of mine to your clinic yesterday.

You had a chance to ..? - Yes. No rush to operate there.

You try to cure him medically first.

Keep in touch. Let me know what progress you make.

I will. Alright, doctor. Thank you.

If we have to, we operate. But I think that case will respond to treatment.

Right.

A fine surgeon you are, Hochberg. Advising against operations.

Whenever it's uncertain, why not give the patient the benefit of the doubt?

We can always operate. That's easy.

George, how is 217?

Pretty restless during the night. Temperature down to normal now.

Good. And Ward B bed 3?

Fine. He asked for a drink of whiskey.

He'll be alright. - He is alright. I gave him a drink.

Good. It won't hurt him any.

Could you have another look at 401, Dr Gordon?

Worse today? - Yes. I'm afraid so.

He's putting up a fight. He may pull through. A fine fellow.

I'll see him now. - Thank you.

By the way, George. We'll send Mr Hudson home Tuesday.

Tuesday? That's great. Marvelous.

Does Laura know yet? - I phoned her this morning.

I wish you could have let me tell her. - I should have thought of that.

The answer is no. - Will you lend me ..

Good morning. - Morning, Doctor Hochberg.

The answer is still no.

Doctor Hochberg.

Yes?

My.

My dear Levine.

I didn't recognize you. - I know.

You're such a stranger.

It must be five years since. - Six.

Six? - Yes.

My. I am getting old.

It's good to see you again.

It's nice to be back again.

How is Catherine?

Not so good. - No?

What seems to be the trouble?

Lungs.

She has ..

A slight persistent cough.

I brought some X-Ray plates.

George.

That shadow there. At the right apex.

Yes. I was afraid.

Now, don't be an alarmist.

Have you examined the sputum?

I brought a specimen.

My microscope is .. broken.

We'll look at it here.

Certainly. I'll have the Path Lab check on it.

Thanks.

Is it important?

My wife.

Oh.

Doctor Ferguson - Doctor Levine.

Doctor Levine?

Of course. Bellevue.

'23.

Professor Drury speaks of you often.

Sure.

George is one of his prize pupils too.

Does he want you to study abroad too?

Yes.

I'm going to study under Von Eiselberg in Vienna.

And he's going on his honeymoon.

It will be difficult to mix the two.

I know Eiselberg.

It's going to be very difficult.

You don't know Laura.

After a year in Vienna I am working with Doctor Hochberg.

Then the real labor begins.

Lucky.

Well, Levine? - Yes.

I'll take these pictures down to X-Ray.

And read them properly. - Thanks.

Thank you.

Don't worry about this.

Do remember.

There is only one ..

Hochberg.

Every minute with him is priceless.

I won't miss a second of it.

Sit down. Make yourself comfortable.

Thank you.

We'll take good care of this.

Doctor Ferguson. That drink worked wonders.

Bed 3 is sitting up and taking notice. - A new school of therapy.

Just loan it to me. - No.

I'll fix you up a date with a redhead. - No. Fix him up.

He's in love.

That's the trouble with being in love. It kills your sex life.

You know, I was in love once myself.

That's the thing I like about you, Pete. Your romantic nature.

"Doctor Bradley. Doctor Bradley."

Doctor Bradley speaking.

Okay. I'll be right up.

At heart I'm just a dreamer. - At heart you're just a stinker.

Thanks. - You're welcome.

Going upstairs, Pete? - Yeah.

Take these to the Path Lab.

Ask Finn to examine it and write a report.

Okay. - Thanks.

Pete, I take back what I said. You're no stinker but a great guy.

Can you .. - No.

Stinker.

That little girl in South 121.

Well?

I ..

I'm kinda worried about that insulin.

Why?

How much did you give her? - Forty units.

I ordered twenty.

I know.

Then why did you give her forty? - Doctor Cunningham ordered it.

There is a danger of shock.

George.

George, I just saw 401.

He is a mighty sick boy.

He might need another transfusion. - 401?

Yes.

I had to go pretty deep to find a good vein.

That's what I worry about.

If it comes up tonight I want you to be here to do it.

Tonight?

This is my night out. I've an engagement.

Sorry, but if the house needs you .. - I want to, but this happened before.

Doctor Gordon. Could I do the transfusion?

Well .. I am afraid not.

The superficial veins are all flambose.

Ferguson was on this case at the start. He knows the veins we've used.

Laidlaw knows the veins.

Frankly, I wouldn't want to trust this case to any of the other men.

I want this boy to have every possible chance.

He is a sick boy, Ferguson.

I'll stay.

If your sweetheart kicks up too much of a row send her around to me.

I'll tell her about my wife. Up at 4:30 this morning to answer the phone.

Somebody had a bellyache.

Doctor Gordon speaking.

That's tough, George.

Sorry I couldn't help you out.

All together.

The Hippocratic oath. The physician's code. I swear by Apollo's physician.

And Asclepius and Hygeia and Panacea.

And all the Gods and all the Goddesses.

And make them my judges.

That this mine oath and this my written engagement.

We are being paid.

Dr Ferguson.

A woman, wife of the ambulance case, cut her wrist bleeding terribly.

Get her into the operating room.

Shorty. Order the O.R.

Lacerated wrist case. Mac.

More anaesthesia. Mike.

Locate Dr Hochberg.

Operating room. Emergency. Be quick.

O.R? Set the O.R. up right away.

Locate Doctor Hochberg.

Right away. Emergency.

Try the X-Ray room.

"Doctor Hochberg. O.R. Emergency B."

"Doctor Hochberg. Doctor Hochberg. O.R. Emergency B."

Information.

Doing very nicely.

Information.

Doing very nicely.

Who do you wish to see? - The little girl, Dorothy.

Dorothy who?

Dorothy Smith.

Don't you remember me? I'm her father.

This is my wife.

Mr and Mrs Smith to see Miss Smith.

Go right in. South 121.

Thank you. This way.

Information.

Doing very nicely.

Who did you wish to see?

Mr Hudson.

Mr John Hudson.

Your name please?

Guess.

Miss Hudson.

Miss Laura Hudson to see her father.

Go right up, Miss Hudson. He's on the roof taking a sunbath.

Thank you.

Whitman is the best cardiac man in the country.

But he can't give you a new heart.

Don't you know that? - Ah ..

What's he done now, Hockie?

Smoking again? - Yes.

Daddy, you should be spanked.

I have a very important deal on, honey.

I'm alright. - An important deal?

What good is your money if you cannot enjoy it?

I can still buy my little girl a honeymoon.

I can spend my honeymoon right here and have a swell time.

As long as it's with George.

Where is he?

The operating room. Busy.

Hockie.

I want to see him. I haven't had a real kiss for days.

Gad. They make a slave out of that boy and he doesn't get a dime.

He is not here for the money.

He is here to learn. The harder he works the more he learns.

When he comes with me his pay is going to be twenty dollars a week.

But there is a chance to work.

The man who's there with me now works from 16 to 18 hours a day.

For twenty dollars a week?

Yes. Yes.

George is a fine boy with great promise.

The next five years are crucial years in that boy's life.

They're going to tell whether he becomes an important man or not.

He's an important man now, Hockie. To me.

Yes. To you.

I don't count?

Who says you don't?

Darling.

God's in his heaven.

Where did you get that hat? - Don't you like it?

You look like a postage stamp.

No. It's becoming.

She looks positively beautiful, doesn't she, Dr Hochberg.

You should have seen the bride when I delivered her.

George, I'll kill that man.

George.

My secretary is attending to the wedding invitations. Better get your list in.

See him about your visas too. - Thank you, sir.

You know.

I can't believe this is really going to happen.

I mean, just happen. - Neither can I.

Vienna is going to be lots of fun.

Fun? You don't know.

Wait until you see The Prater. It's Coney Island with a lift.

Lights all over and all those lovely people laughing and happy.

The whole place tinkling with music.

You know, I've always wanted to hear Strauss at his home ground.

When I was with Eiselberg in Vienna his students spent all the time working.

With an occasional glass of beer for relaxation.

That's what George's Vienna is going to be, Laura.

Don't you mind that old fogey. You kids enjoy yourselves.

You're only young once.

Yeah.

Well?

You don't need me yet, do you?

Why not?

Hockie.

Alright.

I'll call you when I want you.

Let me look at you.

Your eyes look tired. - I didn't get much sleep last night.

It's a pretty sick house. - You're overworked.

I don't like it one bit.

You know, I don't get a kick out of life anymore unless you are around.

And that isn't very often, is it?

We'll make up for it later on.

All through the years.

That doesn't seem long enough.

I wish I had lived all my life with you.

I wish I had been born in the same room and played in the same street.

I'm glad you didn't.

They were ordinary. Gloomy.

It was alright for me. I was busy.

All my life I've wanted to be a fine doctor.

When Hochberg picked me to work with him.

It justified all the tough years.

It means so much, doesn't it. - Yep.

While you were working I was just being another poor little rich girl.

Father gave me everything I wanted and I just took it all for granted.

Then you came along.

I was frightened. I was afraid I would lose you.

So now I have a career.

You.

Well, embrace your career.

"Doctor Ferguson. South 121."

Please don't go.

It's no use, angel. That's my call.

"South 121."

"Doctor Ferguson. South 121."

Now you spoil it.

Doctor Ferguson.

Yes?

Yes, doctor.

I'll be ready. Right.

Alright.

Go ahead. Go to work.

But remember, tonight I will have you to myself.

We'll go to that little roadhouse where the food and music are so good.

Then we take a long drive up the Hudson. - Laura.

I've got bad news for you.

It won't upset you, will it.

I can't make it tonight. I must stay in.

Again? - I'm sorry.

I tried to get out of it but I couldn't.

There's a transfusion I have to do.

It isn't just tonight. It's all the nights.

George, what will our life be like?

Pretty grand. - How can it be?

George. After Vienna.

When we come back to New York.

Let's arrange our lives like human beings.

You can open an office. Have regular hours.

Specialise.

But I'm going to work with Hochberg. - That's just it.

I know Hochberg. I know I'll never see you.

You know.

I've plugged away all my life hoping to work with a man like Hochberg.

I can't give that up, Laura.

But our lives together? Nothing is more important than that.

That's just it.

This work of mine will make our lives important.

Otherwise, it would be pretty dull.

You might lose faith in your career.

"Doctor Ferguson. South 121."

They're calling you. - I know.

I love you.

"South 121."

I wonder.

"South 121."

"Doctor Ferguson. South 121."

Doctor Ferguson.

Yes.

Yes.

Call Doctor Cunningham. It's his case.

Wait a minute, Laura.

George. I can't go on like this.

I'd rather break off right now. - Laura.

When?

Temperature?

Pulse?

Is she pale or perspiring?

Did she ask for food?

No.

No more insulin.

Absolutely not.

I'll be right down.

Doctor Ferguson will be here in a moment.

Doctor Cunningham.

Now, please, Mrs Smith. Please.

What has happened here? - Complete collapse. Two minutes ago.

Let me see that chart.

The pulse is feeble. - Quiet.

You've got to, doctor. You have to. - Rose. Please.

I'm sorry. You have to wait outside.

Careful, Rose.

She's going to get better.

I was afraid of shock.

This is not shock. This is diabetic coma.

Prepare some insulin. Forty units.

And fifty grams of glucose. - I beg your pardon, doctor.

But isn't insulin contraindicated?

Nurse. You take orders from me. - Yes, sir.

The clinical picture is clear.

She's pale, cold, clammy. Temperature subnormal.

Complained of hunger. A sudden onset.

Suppose you let me handle this case, young man.

Prepare the arm.

Shock procedure.

You have sterile glucose?

Fifty grams are ready. - Half of that will do.

Apply a tourniquet. - Yes, sir.

Nurse.

Nurse.

Nurse!

Yes, doctor? - A hypo of adrenaline.

Yes, doctor.

She needs heat. Blanket. - Yes, sir.

I'll have you brought before the medical board.

I'll get you thrown from the hospital. - So have me thrown out.

I never heard of such a thing.

Adrenaline.

Try the other arm.

Never mind the iodine. Use the alcohol.

That's all.

That's about all we can do.

Doctor George.

Here, sweetie.

I'm thirsty.

I want a drink.

You bet, sweetie.

I feel so funny, Doctor George.

Dizzy like.

Yes, sweetheart.

Drink this.

Come on.

Bottoms up.

That's the girl.

Where is mummy?

She's just outside, dear.

I want mother.

Yes. Later, sweetheart.

Okay, Doctor George.

Come on.

Close your eyes.

Doctor.

Doctor.

Now don't worry. She will be alright now.

I wouldn't disturb her just yet.

Thank you, doctor. - Thank you, doctor.

Thank you. - Thank you.

I think it's wonderful of you to stand up against him that way.

Clean up that mess.

What's the matter with you?

This is my first case with a sick child.

I've got to like her an awful lot.

I know.

First case.

A student nurse.

English, aren't you? - Yes, doctor.

What is your name? - Denham. Barbara Denham.

I know just how you feel.

Nerves all tied in a knot.

You want to yell.

I feel the same way myself.

Take my advice. Get as far away from here as you can tonight.

Have a good time. Relax.

Forget the hospital.

I can't.

I take Materia Medica tomorrow.

Materia Medica?

I think I have some notes that may help you.

I'll give them to the orderly on the first floor.

Thanks.

Doctor George.

Yes, baby?

Don't go away.

No. I won't, sweetheart.

I'll be right here.

Okay, Doctor George.

Now you go to sleep.

Thanks, Steve.

I hope the lady likes my vest.

I hope she favors my suit.

What an awful dinner tonight. Fish.

I hope the redhead doesn't like fish.

Shorty's redhead? - Uhuh. He fixed me up.

Shorty gets the vest and I get a date with a redhead.

George. Can you loan me a bow-tie? Mine is in ..

Sure. In the top drawer. - Thanks.

I'll cut your appendix out for nothing sometime.

Say George. Do me a favor, will you?

Tie this thing for me. I never can get these things straight.

My hands are all messy.

Ask Mac or Pete. - Okay.

Want a drink? - I don't need one.

Good drink. Ginger ale, sugar and alcohol out of that jar in the Path Lab.

Somebody tie this tie for me, will you.

Hey, look out for my vest.

What the ..?

Soon, Shorty, with the help of the American medical association ..

You'll have yourself fixed up.

What are you doing here?

401 may need a transfusion.

Yes. Of course.

A lot of good that will do him.

401?

He has passed out.

No? When?

About ten minutes ago.

There you are, Shorty. - Thanks.

You're welcome.

Ah, Pete.

You're a grand guy.

Well, boys.

Good hunting.

An outside wire please.

Pardon me. - Certainly.

Hello?

Hello. Hello, Laura. Look, dear.

I can make it tonight after all.

You can hardly expect me to be sitting here by the phone waiting for you.

I've made other plans. I am just leaving.

But Laura.

Don't be childish.

I'm in a hurry.

There's no use talking about it.

Laura.

Yoo-hoo.

I'm going to eat, drink and make merry.

I am sorry, doctor.

There must be some mistake.

Well. I'd be glad to but ..

I'm going out tonight with Shorty.

Oh.

That dirty ..

Did Shorty get the redhead? - Yeah.

My vest and the redhead.

Hey, Shorty!

Good evening, Doctor Hochberg.

You diseased rat.

Good evening, Doctor Levine.

I am sorry if I've .. - Yes. The report.

We'll go and see Finn in the Path Lab.

What did Doctor Hochberg find?

He had an emergency call.

He left it with the X-Ray operator to read.

I hope it is nothing.

Poor Katherine.

You see.

She has had so much.

So much.

It's different than when I was here.

That was before I was married.

Yes, yes. Professor Drury told me.

Old Drury.

Yes. I remember what he always said to me.

'Levine the fool'.

'A chance to work with Hochberg'.

'To be somebody'.

'Threw it all away for a pretty face'.

Yes, Drury.

Poor Katherine.

We'll go in and wait.

Medicine.

Why do we kill ourselves for it?

I don't know.

I often wonder myself.

Hi, George.

Is that report ready?

For Hochberg?

Children? - Yes.

Let me see.

Ready.

Say, George.

You know that temporary girl down in X-Ray?

She was over at Fletcher's.

Next table to mine. She is luscious.

She had on one of those dark, tight, silk things.

That she wears close to the skin.

Boy, what a chassis.

What a chassis.

What?

I came down for those notes.

Yes. Of course.

Let's see, what was it? Materia Medica?

Yes.

I have them here someplace.

I suppose I shouldn't have come in.

Pathology.

Histology.

I hope nobody saw me.

Here.

There you are. - Thanks.

Not at all. I hope they're some help.

Is there anything wrong?

What?

Anything wrong? - No, no.

What? - Head nurse outside.

Did she see you?

Wait a minute. She will be gone.

Better sit down.

Thanks.

Don't mind me.

You work very hard, don't you.

Work?

Sure. What else is there but work?

And work.

You know.

When I thought Dorothy was going to die.

I got a feeling like ..

I can't put into words.

I know.

I know that feeling.

You too?

Me too.

Up to here.

Right now.

I'm tired of the work and blood and sweat and pain.

The chap in 401 is dead.

Levine's wife is going to die.

One begins to wonder why anything makes any difference.

Yes.

You get .. so lonely.

And you feel ..

Tomorrow it's me.

And the only thing that matters is just being alive.

Just being alive now.

I am sorry, Barbara.

Please don't feel .. - Oh no.

No.

Thanks.

I'm going up to Ward C to look around for a few minutes.

The coast is clear now. You had better go.

28 thousand, 19 thousand.

33 thousand, 500.

Which adds up to a total deficit of $163,000.

Obviously something has to be done.

Any solution is preferable to further economies, Mr Spencer.

We've cut to the bone. - Everything.

Our staff, nurses, technicians. Salaries. Meals.

Telephones even.

Interns are only allowed two outside calls.

An absurd economy.

Now it seems to me.

We have a lot of people in our laboratories.

Couldn't we reduce them? - We could not.

Those laboratories, Mr Holden, are the hospital.

Every advance that medicine has made has been through laboratories.

Pathology.

Chemistry, X-Rays.

Without them we're helpless.

Really?

Absolutely.

If Doctor Hochberg will agree to the appointment as suggested ..

I believe we've found a solution.

What's all this?

Bluntly, Doctor Hochberg, we need someone to underwrite our deficit.

Yes?

I think I've found that someone.

A man well known for his philanthropy.

For his generous soul.

For his social and civic work.

John Hudson.

A friend of yours I believe.

Yes. But I didn't recognise him by the description.

Good idea though.

Get Hudson interested and he will put the hospital on a paying basis.

Precisely.

It so happens that one of our interns is marrying Hudson's daughter.

We suggest.

That the medical board.

Offer Doctor Ferguson an associateship.

Impossible.

But if we don't appoint the boy we can't expect Hudson to be interested.

No.

He wants the boy to open an office and settle down.

Gentlemen. You're wasting your time.

Doctor Ferguson will never accept the appointment.

What makes you say that? - I know the boy.

He's too honest to sacrifice his career for a nice office and an easy practice.

Besides, he's going to work with me. He won't have the time and ..

It's a bit foolish to discuss it.

Are you nervous?

Every step a major operation.

You should see a doctor.

Where's the best man?

He couldn't get away. - You must tell him then.

Now, where is that flower girl?

Here I am.

Come here, darling.

Now that's that.

Now, on the exit.

The bride and groom will leave.

The rest of the wedding party will follow.

The show is over.

And this bride wants to be alone with her groom.

They're always giving him ether at that hospital and taking him away from me.

If you change your mind, Laura, please let me know.

I will.

I will try a little anaesthetic of my own.

And I'm going under without a murmur.

You were perfect.

Perfect.

You're not worried about anything?

I'm worried about letting Hochberg down.

After all .. - Let's not talk about him.

Alright.

There aren't any Hochbergs in the world. - No.

As a matter of fact, Dr Hochberg, I had dinner last night with the Hudson's.

I spoke to Ferguson about the appointment.

He seemed to be delighted with the idea.

He said that? - Certainly.

And why not? It's a fine opportunity for him.

Nothing else, gentlemen?

Do you approve, Doctor Hochberg?

No.

Dr Hochberg.

The patient in 341 is still unconscious.

Something is wrong with the lower jaw. - What?

It's protruding. Somewhat rigid.

I thought it might be tetanus. - No.

No. Not so soon.

Anyway, you gave him antitoxin, didn't you?

No. - What?

Don't you know antitoxin is routine at this hospital?

Yes doctor, but I thought ..

Dr Ferguson didn't say. I thought he gave it.

He didn't tell you?

He left at twelve? - Yes, doctor.

Then give that antitoxin at once. - Yes, doctor.

Get me Atwater 9-0-3-2.

Wipe your lips. You look like you've been eating jam.

Come in.

I have.

What flavor?

Peach.

Doctor Hochberg phoned. He wishes to see Doctor Ferguson at the hospital.

I was afraid of that. - I must go. I'm late now.

Do you think he found anything? I think I'll go with you.

He won't talk to you away from me. - Not a chance.

Hello, Hockie.

Hello, Laura.

You've been away since 12 o'clock.

I left Michaelson in charge to cover me.

Did you give him instructions?

Why ..

He thought you had given 341 antitoxin.

No. No, I hadn't.

I intended to tell him.

I guess I forgot.

Forgot?

Is that a thing to forget?

It was my fault, Hockie.

I dragged him away.

He's not supposed to leave the house at all.

And a very sick house too.

You know that, Doctor Ferguson?

Yes, doctor.

But Hockie. It was important.

Terribly important.

It was the rehearsal of our wedding.

The rehearsal of your wedding?

That's nice.

And upstairs in 341 there's a boy all smashed to bits.

There will be no wedding for him if he develops tetanus.

Do you know what tetanus is, Laura?

Lockjaw.

Death.

In a horrible agony.

Hockie.

I'm awfully sorry.

George has only a few more days to go, my dear.

I want him to keep his record clean.

George.

I heard something today.

I didn't quite know what to make of it.

You want to accomplish something in medicine?

Certainly. - You mean it?

Yes.

You love George, don't you, Laura?

You know I do. - You want to help him of course.

But you're not helping him.

That appointment I talked to you about.

You won't be ready for it.

After a year in Vienna, I thought .. - One year?

I don't expect it to be easy.

I count on work. Hard work.

Ten years of it.

Ten years.

I can't see how the appointment is going to hurt George.

There are a great many things you can't see, Laura.

If he goes into practice we could have a little time to ourselves.

Time?

How?

There are only 24 hours in a day.

He is going to work with me and if ..

Or is he?

Are you, George?

Hockie, we're young. We love each other.

We want more out of life than ..

Of course, Laura.

It is George's life and yours.

You've a right to decide for yourselves what you do with it.

Better get into your uniform, George.

We might have to operate shortly.

A new case has come in at the surgical service.

One of our own nurses.

Denham. Barbara Denham. You remember her?

Poor child.

Such a nice little girl too.

What happened?

Ruptured appendix?

More serious than that.

Why didn't she come to us?

Get into your uniform, George.

Yes, doctor.

You might have a look at the boy in 341.

I'll meet you in Operating room B.

Yes, doctor.

Laura, you deserve to be spanked.

Don't you realize what that boy's work means?

Of course I do.

No.

No you don't.

Would you like to see perhaps?

Yes. Why not?

Come with me.

Nurse.

Yes, doctor? - Take Miss Hudson upstairs.

See she gets a cap and gown and have her in operating room B in about ..

Twenty minutes.

Quiet, honey.

Mary.

Yes, darling?

I'm right here.

Is ..

Is George here?

He'll be coming soon.

You must go to sleep now.

Get a hypo ready.

How is she?

Temperature? - 106.

Delirious? - She was before.

She kept calling for you.

For me? - Yes.

Better wait.

Doctor Hochberg is in there. She's quiet now.

If you go in there she might start talking.

You wouldn't want that, would you? - Why didn't she come to me?

Why didn't she tell me?

Why did she keep away? - It was my fault.

I said you loved someone else and were engaged to be married.

To keep away from you.

Go to the operating room at once. A hysterectomy.

Yes, doctor.

Was this Miss Denham a friend of yours?

Yes, doctor. - Well.

Better notify her relatives.

She hasn't any.

And the man who ..?

Does he realize what's happened?

I suppose so.

Who is the man?

I don't know.

Patient ready. Send a rolling stretcher for her at once.

Give her that hypo. - Yes, doctor.

You saw the boy in 341?

Yes, doctor. He is unconscious now.

That business with the jaw. - Dislocated.

I put it back in place.

No further evidence of internal injury.

A possible fracture of the left tibia.

I'll have pictures taken. - Pain?

A slight pain. General.

Did you give him morphine? - No, doctor.

Why not? - An accident case.

I didn't want to mask any possible internal injuries.

Very good, George.

Going down.

Up. Operating room.

Have you bought me that vest yet?

Honest, Pete. I haven't had time.

It didn't take you 3 months to lose it. You've had 3 pay days since.

I had my income tax.

You shouldn't have lost it.

I told you I didn't lose it. I was robbed.

Miss Vance.

Doctor Hochberg wants this lady in a sterile gown.

Right here please.

Don't touch it.

These nightgowns are pretty wrinkled, aren't they.

They are never pressed. That would unsterilize them.

I see.

We have a guest.

Hello.

How do you think I look?

Very becoming.

Do you think so, George?

Yes. Very.

You can look around.

But keep out of the way.

Don't touch anything and keep your hands behind your back.

Doctor George.

Yes, Barbara.

What are they going to do to me?

There's nothing to be afraid of.

But.

Will you be there?

Yes.

The poor child.

To have to go through this thing all alone.

No!

You've unsterilized my gown.

Nurse. Sterile gown, quick.

Right.

Miss Hudson. Put your mask on.

Stand right here.

George.

Darling.

I loved you.

I don't care.

Ready doctor Wren?

Ready, doctor.

Ready, doctor Ferguson?

Ready.

Scalpel.

Look. A nurse fainted.

A medical student.

Of course.

Frontal elevated position.

Better than lunch at the hospital, eh George?

Good to get away once in a while.

The nurse tells me you watched the Barbara Denham case all last night.

That is very nice.

Temperature down this morning, right?

Yes.

How was the boy in 341?

Doctor Hochberg. There's something I must tell you.

I know.

Drink your beer, George.

That is beer.

George.

When she gets out I'm going to marry her if she'll have me.

Stop talking like an idiot. Pull yourself together.

What about Laura?

I phoned her all yesterday afternoon and all last night.

She wouldn't come to the phone. Wouldn't even talk to me.

That's too bad.

Yet, George, in a way that's not the worst that could happen to you.

Now there is work, my boy.

Remember that's the master word: 'Work'.

Doctor Hochberg, you don't know what this Denham girl is up against.

It isn't as though she were just a ..

She's a fine, sensitive girl.

She will have nowhere to go. No-one to turn to unless ..

Well.

I'm going to marry her.

I see.

You've saved some money then?

Out of what?

How are you going to take care of her?

I'm going into practice.

Remember Levine?

I had a letter from him yesterday.

He writes to me.

He is trying to build up a practice.

They're starving, George.

He begs me to lend him twenty dollars.

Well?

You still want to work with me, George?

You can if you wish. - I'm going into practice I say.

In that case you're finished. You're through.

Alright. I am.

Why not?

What is a profession that can't provide bread and butter ..

After you waste ten years of your life on it?

If I can't make a go of practice I'll find a job doing something else.

I won't starve. I'll always make a living.

Laura.

Hockie. They told me at the hospital I would find you here.

I sail tonight on the Olympic and I must talk to you alone for a minute.

Laura.

I'll be at the hospital, Doctor Hochberg.

Sit down, Laura.

You spanked me alright.

Harder than I meant. Forgive me.

Better now than later, Hockie.

Won't you please sit down?

Sleep much last night?

Sure. Why not?

No, Hockie.

I didn't sleep a wink.

Thanks.

I'm washed up with the whole business.

Yes, of course you are. Of course.

It was a pretty rotten trick and you know it.

I know nothing except the human body a little.

I haven't met a man or woman whom impulse couldn't make a fool of.

He was too busy to see me.

He didn't have time for me.

But he had time for ..

That's what hurts.

It hurts like the devil.

I know it.

I know it.

Waiter.

Ride with me, Laura?

We can talk in the car, eh?

Alright.

I don't care, Hockie. I really don't.

That's fine. And it makes no difference to you that right now ..

He has thrown his life away.

He is going to marry her.

Do you mean that?

Yes. And go into practice and starve.

Give up his studies and maybe get out of medicine altogether.

"Doctor Hochberg, West 501."

"Doctor Hochberg, West 501."

Doctor Hochberg.

Prepare hypo of adrenaline. Long needle. At once.

Laura.

I don't want you to go away feeling like this.

What difference does it make how I feel? - A great deal to me.

You love her, don't you? - I love you, Laura.

Yes. I'm sure you do.

I don't care whether you believe it or not.

It just happens that I do.

But then how ..?

I don't understand. It doesn't make sense.

I don't know. - I don't know myself.

Everything had gone wrong and, well I ..

If it all had gone wrong and we meant anything to each other you'd come to me.

You know I don't care a hoot about ceremony.

The point is that you don't care about me, George.

Not for a minute.

I wanted you more than anything else in the world that night, Laura.

But we had quarrelled. You wouldn't even go out with me.

It was that night?

I didn't want to give up Hochberg and I didn't want to give you up.

I was fighting you. - Through her?

Now you say you're going to marry a girl you don't care about.

You're letting a casual incident rob you of everything you think is important.

It's not a casual incident anymore, Laura.

Alright.

Go ahead, Make your beautiful gesture. Marry her.

I'm going to.

Because it's the easiest way out and you fret over what people may say about you.

You're a coward. You have no backbone.

I had no backbone when someone talked me out of a chance to work with Hochberg.

I'm not doing this because I care what anybody says or thinks.

I'm doing this because this girl's life is smashed.

I'll try and help her to pick up the pieces and put them together again.

Have a look at the boy in 341.

Yes, Doctor.

I'm afraid she has no chance, Laura.

We have tried everything.

Useless.

I didn't want to tell George just yet.

Is she suffering?

I spared her that.

Do you think you can stand another spanking, Laura?

I think I can stand almost anything now, Hockie.

Come with me.

Miss Hudson.

I want to see you for a minute.

I hoped you wouldn't mind.

You know about ..?

Please.

Please don't hate me.

I was ..

So lonely.

Who was going to help me with my exam?

Lend me some notes.

He'd had ..

An awful day, Miss Hudson.

Six.

Long operations.

He had lost a patient.

He is going to be a great doctor, Miss Hudson.

He needs you.

Please.

Would you mind ..

Sending him to me?

I won't keep him long.

No. There's nothing more we can do, George.

Then what is the use?

What good is it all? Why go on? We don't know anything.

We are only groping.

There isn't a man in medicine who hasn't said what you said.

And meant it for a minute. All of us, George.

And you're right. We are groping. And guessing.

But at least our guesses today are closer than they were twenty years ago.

Twenty years from now it will be still closer.

Hockie.

She wants to see George.

Hockie.

Is there anything? - No, Laura.

A blood clot.

And we are helpless.

Forty years I have spent in medicine.

And I can't help her.

I want to hold your hand.

Don't talk.

Doctor George.

Doctor George.

Doctor George.

We're leaving now.

I'm going home. I'm okay now, doctor George.

You bet you're okay, sweetheart.

Goodbye, doctor George.

Goodbye, darling.

Goodbye, Doctor Ferguson.

Goodbye, Mrs Smith.

Thank you.

Goodbye, Doctor Ferguson.

Goodbye, Mr Smith. - Thank you.

Come on dear.

Goodbye, sweetheart.

Goodbye.

Yes. It's the only thing any of us want to do, Laura.

That's why we do it.

My father was a surgeon.

A good one.

I remember when I was a boy.

About thirteen.

He came to my room one night and apologized because he was going to die.

His heart had gone bad on him.

He could have lived twenty years longer.

If he'd taken it easy and quit work.

But he wouldn't quit.

He used to say.

'Above all else is humanity'.

That's a pretty big thought, Laura.

Alongside of it, you and I don't really matter very much.

[ Door knocks ]

I'm sorry, George.

I sail for Europe tonight.

I know.

And you?

Work.

Work.

With Hockie? - Yes.

After Vienna.

I'll study there and then work with Hochberg.

That is where I belong, Laura.

I know.

You are right.

You've always been right. You and Hockie.

It's bigger than any of us.

Humanity.

When you are in Vienna I would like to see you.

I know. I know you'll be frightfully busy.

But there will be moments.

I want to be with you then.

"Doctor Ferguson. West 408."

Doctor Ferguson.

Yes.

Frontal position. Yes.

You'd better call Dr Hochberg.

Yes.

"Doctor Hochberg. West 208."

"Doctor Hochberg. West 208."

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